All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Joe Biden

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Aldous Huxley

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

Jodi Picoult

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

Zac Efron

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

Ruth E. Renkel

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

Christian Bale

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

Christopher Walken

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Hippocrates

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Nelson Mandela

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert